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**Episode 2: The Axiomatic Core**

**I. Introduction: The Science of Constraints**

* **Defining the Laws:** Unlike many physical theories that are affirmative, thermodynamics is unique because its laws are **prohibitions**.

* **The Scope:** These laws form a set of boundaries so robust that they have never been observed to fail in any macroscopic system in the universe.

* **The "Bare-Metal" Framework:** Introducing the concept of the irreducible logical core of the science, consisting of four axioms and one enabling assu ...